Featured Essay
Sovereignty without sacrifice
You can have easy payments or private payments. Good UX or self-custody. Censorship resistance or features people actually use. That’s been the conventional wisdom for years.
But it’s a false choice. The protocols are built. Bitcoin works. Lightning works. Nostr works. The hardest technical problems are solved. What remains is a different kind of challenge: making these products available and accessible to people who don’t care about self-sovereignty—yet.
